He overturns one of his innumerable burning trash barrels and rolls it at you, but your experience at that construction site back in the day made you really good at jumping over barrels.

He makes as if to attack you, but has to pause for a moment to deal with an ol' itch.

He tries to stab you with his pointy tail, but you tell him a pointed tale about an Adventurer who quickly got out of the way of a pointy tail.

He tries to poke you with a pitchfork, but you say "Hey!" and shuffle out of the way.

He lunges toward you, but gets tangled up in his tail and trips.

Fumble Message:

He lifts an immense barrel of burning trash over his head and prepares to throw it at you, but it turns out it was filled with discarded fire extinguishers. He coughs and sputters, and has to crawl back into the stove for a while to heat back up. (FUMBLE!)

Special Move(s):

Ol' Scratch flips out, and you feel the temperature rise 30 degrees. Man, you could separate Kevin Bacon five times with all of this extra heat!

"How about we turn up the heat!?" shouts Ol' Scratch, as he pours gasoline on you and lights it. (hot damage)

Notes

If you have more than five effects, Ol' Scratch also has a special attack which does some hot damage and randomly strips 10 effects off of you. He will use this very frequently, but not every round. This is an extra attack and does not preempt his normal attack. Effects that do not show up on the "Effects" list on the side pane, such as the Moveable feast's bonus and the mayfly swarm, do not appear to count as effects for this purpose.

If Ol' Scratch is stunned, he will not debuff you.

Effects do not need to be positive; the yellow ray after-effect counts towards 5 effects, yet Ol' Scratch will not remove it.

Hobopolis bosses are immune to effects which would cause them to be unable to act over multiple rounds, such as those listed in the Stunning article. However, single-round stuns are effective.

Ol' Scratch has a soft damage cap, after which a special damage reduction is applied. If an attack would do no more than 500 damage, then no damage reduction is applied. Otherwise, if x is the base damage done, then the actual damage Ol' Scratch takes is 500+floor((x-500)0.7). This formula is applied to any type of damage and to any source of damage.

The number of Ol' Scratch's salad forks dropped increases with item drop bonuses at 1 for 100%. That is, you will receive floor(item/100) forks.